We're soooo close to offering aarch64 builders on Nix-community! Looking forward to running full NixOS VM tests on ARM.

Anybody want to donate 8EUR/month to the cause? 😅
https://opencollective.com/nix-community

fail2ban: create a ton of logs and get yourself locked out of your own servers 😆

NixOS 23.11 is out!

Can you believe that 2100 people participated in making this happen?

https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-23-11-released/36210

direnv v2.33.0 is out!

It's pretty amazing; all of the fixes and features were done by contributors. Some nice changes:

* PowerShell support
* direnv won't nag you if you explicitly deny a .envrc.
* `direnv status --json` for IDE integration

https://github.com/direnv/direnv/releases/tag/v2.33.0

Nice, NixOS VM tests can now run at full speed in GitHub Actions.

https://github.com/cachix/install-nix-action/commit/fe19c91c6b0293441aca084e88a60ee59640922c

A nice story about how you can easily find what Rust commit broke your project, when it's built using Nix.


https://github.com/amjoseph-nixpkgs/nixpkgs/blob/d43e8d5549d4991d7b875a4cfb7c09e9bb6901d2/doc/languages-frameworks/rust.section.md#using-git-bisect-on-the-rust-compiler-using-git-bisect-on-the-rust-compiler

We started working on a better Gradle <-> Nix packaging experience.

DM me if your company is interested in participating in the process, so we can make sure their use cases are being covered.

Here is a nice write-up of the retreat by Brian. Looking forward to the next one!

#NumtideRetreat

https://bmcgee.ie/posts/2023/10/numtide-retreat-2023/

If you need better Wi-Fi coverage at your Airbnb, call the professional @lassulus enterprise service. AP in a plastic bag makes it waterproof!

#NumtideRetreat

World IPv6 Launch was on 6 June 2012. Can you believe that GitHub still only supports IPv4 on their stack?